jQuery UI datepicker opens automatically within dialog

Question

I have a datepicker which is used within the jQuery dialog object. The source of the dialog\'s content is loaded using .load(). Within the dialog I created a sc

Answer 1

I had this exact problem and solved it with only a slight variation on tvanfosson's technique. For some reason I had to manually attach the "click" event to the datepicker field as below.

 $('#dialog').dialog({
 open: function(event, ui) {
    $(ui).find('#date').datepicker().click(function(){
        $(this).datepicker('show');
    });
 },
 close: function(event,ui) {
    $(ui).find('#date').datepicker('destroy');
 }});

(Sorry--I would've preferred to post this as a comment to tvanfosson's post but don't have the requisite rep.)